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GIVE LADS BREAK, SAYS EAGER JOSH

By Charlie Peat

Josh Laurent in action for Bury against Charlton

LIFE as a young player attempting to elbow your way into a first team is fraught with peril – something that on-loan Bury midfielder Josh Laurent knows all too well.
At 22, Laurent has been at seven different clubs, three in loan spells, but the midfielder has made little more than 50 league appearances.
Laurent was a product of the QPR academy but opted to leave in 2015 as he went in search of regular football.
Rangers’ head of football operations Les Ferdinand revealed at the time that he had been unable to co...

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